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Quote:I'd read yesterday the villain would be Brainiac. I'll have to see if I can find the source.Originally Posted by DarkGob
Sounds like a bigger snorefest than Superman Returns. And I have a bit of a hard time believing that Zod will be the villain; he was the Big Bad on Smallville last season, and studios always tend to underestimate the audience and assume that Smallville fans will see some other dude cast as Zod and wonder "duhhhhh why doesn't he look like Callum Blue". (I suppose Superman Returns would inherently not have suffered from this imaginary problem since it was meant to be a sequel to Superman 2.) -
Quote:Not to nitpick back, but Ares was considered the father of the Amazonian race, the product of his liaison with Otrera. Artemis is mentioned as a deity they worshipped, but it's not exactly clear many times if it's the Greek version of Artemis. Artemis' temple at Ephesos was supposedly built by Amazons, as the city was supposed to have been founded by them as well.Originally Posted by ApolloSteele
Not to Nitpick, but Amazons would worship Artemis. Especially if there's man-killing involved.
Ares followers in general would be mercs, merc warlords and Militaristic leaders. Actually
a counter-culture of Men seperated from the world would make an interesting Dynamic.
Myrmidons V. Amazons.
Oh and a little known fact Lynda Carter Auditioned for the role of Captain Kathryn Janeway
on "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995).
/Emote jumps up and down in consternation doing my best Roscoe Pecole Train impression
Coulda been The Best Star Trek Series EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ares was never worshipped in cult within the Greek world. Ares was the personification of the destruction caused by war. Soldiers of any stripe gravitated towards Athena, since she was supposed to represent strategy and brilliant thinking to win in combat with the least amount of loss. The Greeks claimed that the Amazons had a link with Ares, as the Amazons were considered a barbarian tribe that supposedly existed on the fringes of what the Greeks considered the civilized world.
I mention Ares because in WW stories he shows up as an antagonist, not as a proud ancient ancestor. -
Quote:I don't hate Smallville, not since Lana finally left, but I don't expect much from it either.Originally Posted by Lothic
Actually the fact that this new Wonder Woman show will likely -not- have a direct connection to Smallville is probably a good thing, not bad. Of course that's just my opinion, YMMV.
I've actually been enjoying the appearances of other DC characters in the show.
I think a lot of time the anger at the show is just unjustified nerdrage at how some characters are portrayed. It's just a silly CW show, not a major motion picture. -
Quote:You're absolutely right. Hollywood needs to stay the bastion of original material that it is today!Originally Posted by Comeuppance
It's definitely a bad thing if it leads to more remakes. If filmmakers can't come up with original ideas, they should get new jobs. Heck, anybody can "re-imagine" another individual's idea. The true talent of a great many filmmakers these days is the ability to sucker consumers into paying to view the same movie twice.
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Quote:If they'd timed things better, they could have had a Smallville lead in show.Originally Posted by Lothic
I guess it'll be interesting to see how they frame this new show. Will Wonder Woman just be kind of a loner doing things semi-independently or will they try to build up a "scooby gang" of sorts like Buffy the Vampire Slayer did? Will other characters from the Justice League ever be involved here or will the show effectively assume she's the only superhero in the world (kind of like the 70s era show did)?
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Quote:If DC had depicted Wonder Woman as a proper Amazonian princess, she'd be an Ares worshipping man-killer, capable of intense violence and probably out to destroy the hated Greeks once and for all.Originally Posted by Mothers_Love
Yes, but the difference was it was not her job that was on the line.... it was all about pleasing Steve because she wuved him and genuinely fretted about letting him down.
I want to see something more akin to the build-up of the Kingdom Come Diana. A proper Amazonian princess with a clear mission.
The DC version of Amazons is ridiculous and silly, and leads to the murkyness that CaptainFoamerang was talking about.
But I digress...
I really just hope the show doesn't suck, but I'm sure it will. -
If this is on CW filling the void left on Smallville, we'll be starting with a teenybopper Wonder Woman, probably with all kinds of ridiculous angst, and David E. Kelly's sole contribution will be a long multi-season love crush with a guy, whom she'll obssess about as she worries about her biological clock ticking away.
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Quote:I know a lot of Metallica fans that claim they sold out with "Justice"Originally Posted by MentalMaden
I'll address the whole Black album thing, from a pre-Black album fan's perspective. (Nobody do the age math on that please!)
The Black album is an important album. It's the one that turned Metallica from the best kept secret of all metal lovers into the biggest rock and roll band on the planet. You can't argue the "quality" of the album as it did become extremely popular with fans and people not aware or interested in them before. Once the smoke cleared and the tours ended and they put out ...........Load (ugh) it became clear that the Metallica we ended up with was a shell of the Metallica we had. Gone were the lengthy songs with changing time signatures and key changes and quite frankly some of the heaviness. We no longer got the head banging middle section of songs to rock out to in between verses, interesting lyrical exploration of tough to deal with subjects or blazing minute long solos from Hammet, instead we got tight, short, heavy popish metal. Songs for the masses. (I'm looking at you Fuel)
Now I don't begrudge them (or any band) the right to experiment with new techniques and song structures; it is afterall their right. But it's also the right of any fan to genuinely like or dislike what the experimentation brings them. They had stored up a lot of credibility, so this opinion comes after years of being let down by them (nail on the head= Some Kind of Monster). But I miss the more complicated Metallica music; I miss the more complilcated band. While maybe they've matured, they've also softened and that just isn't Metallica to me.
I don't hate the Black album, it was the album that got a lot of my non-metal friends to see and appreciate and even love the band I'd admired for years before that. The only problem is it turned them into the real fans and me into the old fossil that liked "those weird old albums". It's a bittersweet thing, the Black album. I had someone I dated years ago borrow my Black CD and after the breakup I found myself not that upset that it wasn't returned. Never bought another one, although in times of nostalgia I think about picking it up again. Hell, I played the grooves off the thing when it came out and I still have every note memorized, but it's still not Metallica-Metallica. For me at least. I can and do appreciate the album, but I don't "love it". When I jones to hear them, I want Blackened, or Battery, or Master or Am I Evil. I could go another decade without hearing Enter Sandman on the other hand.
As I said in another post, I'll give Death Magnetic another try. Maybe there is hope.
I think Metallica followers fall into two camps, you have the metal fans who like Metallica, and you have people who are just fans of the band. The former tend to be the ones most likely to call them sellouts.
I personally still like Metallica. Obviously their early stuff was much much better, but I don't hate some their newer stuff either. I've seen them twice in concert the last few years and they still put on a great show.
"Creeping Death" is my favorite song they do live. The whole audience shouting "DIE! DIE!" over and over to the song is pretty cool. I remember when I was younger and listening to that song, I could just say, "But Grandma, this is a bible story...." -
I don't mind the "Defend the Circle" mission. I've successfully soloed it a couple of times and rather enjoyed it. I think it was because I had scrappers, and I always opened up with their AOE.
I hate caves of any variety. Blue, mines, Oranbega. I won't play CoT arcs because them. The Council ones don't bother me as much.
It's funny how people mention the pancake cave room, which I despise, and masterminds. Whenever I was running paper missions on my MM, it seemed like got that one every other one. So annoying.
It's the combinations that are annoying. Kill alls on certain maps, glowies on other ones, etc. -
Quote:The occasional screw up is perfectly understandable. What I'm talking about are the people who won't learn from their mistakes, and get hostile at the slightest suggestion that they might try things differently. Or the teams that can't seem to stay together and are always divided, or the one or two players that run off on their own, get in trouble and run back, and bring that trouble with them when the team is already in a nasty fight.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I hate quitters, myself, for the simple fact that I hate people who will tolerate nothing but things going perfectly smoothly. I don't really care how awesome your character is and how much my crappy build is holding you back. If you're a good enough player you'll be able to slow down to accommodate the less good players.
It's really the attitude that bugs me, and a lot of people seem to display it. "Well, if the team is full of idiots then yes I'll quit!" Really? Maybe try to work with these people DESPITE their ineptitude and see if you can't come up with a workable solution? Lord knows it doesn't always work, but at least try to stick it to the end of the mission. Hell, some of my most fun teaming moments have been on a team full of losers that I kept trying to convince "We can do this! Just stick together!" and eventually succeeded.
As a point of fact, if you tend to look down on people, then many of them will feel like idiots to you. We all make mistakes. I have almost encyclopaedic knowledge of this game, and even I goof up on my facts all the time. I've had people mock me for making simple mistakes, but simple mistakes happen. Wrong aggro happens, wrong information happens, brainfarts happen. Yes, even team wipes happen from time to time. The only really good team is the one that takes this in stride and doesn't collapse in on itself over the first sign of difficulty.
Personally, I prefer if people would try to help the team more, instead of making demands of the team so very often.
It's not something I do often, but with any sizable population in any endeavor, not just gaming, you're going to get some duds. -
I've never intentionally quit a task force. Connection problems can hit anyone, though.
I have quit teams when they got rough, however, that's only if I thought the others were so incompetent that it wasn't worth sticking around. I don't mind a team wipe or two if it's legitimately tough and there are mostly good players, but I think everyone has been on teams with total nobs and finally said, "Screw this."
I was on a team once with an incompetent leader who quit at the first sign of trouble. The rest of the team quickly followed when we hit the boss at the end of the mission. The only two left were me and a totally new player. I felt bad about abandoning him or her so I stuck around. I did some pulls and other tactics on the surrounding mobs and we managed to finish. I think if the rest of that team had stayed, it would have been worse. -
I was about to quit the game over the summer. I'm glad I held out, thought I still don't really team much.
Quote:LOLOriginally Posted by Ironik
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It's always because of a woman.
We'll be welcoming you back a few years into your marriage. Take care. -
Quote:Ever since I bought the martial arts pack, I use Ninja Run and I take both sprint and hurdle anyway, and not take a travel power. The fitness pool isn't the burden it used to be for me anymore.Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker
I'd tend to agree with this. Most builds NEED Stamina - and getting to Stamina is a PITA in itself. There's at least 2 powers most just don't want to take just to get there.
Most other pools are pretty optional, even the travel powers these days, but fitness is about the only definite requisite unless you've got serious End mitigation.
The only time it's an issue for me is for a character that I want to fly, mostly for concept reasons. -
Quote:Give me six months to work with Golden Girl and we could really have an event.Originally Posted by Steampunkette
Sadly, I'm incapable of Catfighting. =-(
My father was a Drill Sergeant and taught me how to fight early on, in case some boy got me alone somewhere... Plus I'm 6'3" tall. >.>
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I just like the idea of a catfight between the two of you.
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By the way, I think Golden Girl is just trolling you guys, at least on some level.
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Quote:Wars are typically fought over resources. Politics, religion, culture, etc. are just window dressing, and those are mostly external motivations.Originally Posted by Steampunkette
The Civil War started over Capitalism. The North wanted higher tariffs on cotton, wheat, textile/food exports with lower tariffs on machinery or other goods. The south (while larger) was less populated by the north and felt threatened by the democratic superiority of the Northern states. Secession was the alternative. The Abolition of Slavery was a minor issue in the greater scheme of the war.
World War 2 was inspired by Capitalism. After WW1 Germany was in the greatest economic depression it's ever seen. Hitler and his national Socialist Party came into power because people wanted better money-handling methods and practices. However, Hitler's "Socialist" regime was hardly socialism. All it did was give him greater power after he eliminated all other political threats and started consolidating power as the Chancellor of Germany. Greed and Capitalism lead to his rise, since most people couldn't get -jobs- outside of Germany if they had german blood.
Every War Britain has Ever gotten into has been based on Capitalistic greed. Whether it's taking over the Ivory Coast or trying to reclaim the American Colonies due to the large amounts of cash they and the companies under the monarchy were raking in from the goods shipped in.
Yeah... pol pot and Stalin weren't capitalists. But they also weren't Socialists, according to the original meaning and intent of the word.
The best example of true Socialism in action would be the Native Americans and other tribal people throughout history. The Hunters hunt, the Gatherers Gather, everyone works and everyone is better off for it. If someone is sick or injured they are tended while the work goes on around them. In a Capitalist Society the injured or ill just don't earn any cash during the time they're not working.
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Many of Stalin's greatest atrocities occured due to his forced collectivization and were done to his own people over his political ideology. This is not unique to other communist strongmen. -
Quote:Not to nitpick, but you're a bit off on that sister. Virginia after the Revolution was very abolition minded. Virginia delegates, actually tried to have slavery outlawed. South Carolina put up the biggest fight, and the Northern colonies were happy to sit back and not argue the issue.Originally Posted by Steampunkette
The Colonies of Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas -REFUSED- to vote for revolution at the Continental Congress until the Prohibition of Slavery was removed from the Declaration of Independence.
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I also don't know that I'd call democracy evil. As a wiser fella than myself once said, it's a terrible form of government, but it beats the alternatives. -
Quote:LOLOriginally Posted by Coyote_Seven
You think an economic system is "evil" because of how one government went about trying to impose it?
By this reckoning, Capitalism is also evil. Your rigid and dogmatic approach to these things is fundamentally dangerous. To be quite honest, more evil has come out of that than anything else. It's a shame you don't see it; it could be your undoing.
Yeah, if Stalin and Pol Pot had been capitalists, then they could have really done some damage! -
Quote:Some of Stalin's NKVD men who were carrying out his purge orders said quite plainly they did what they did because if they'd refused, they would have been "disappeared" themselves. There was no Resistance for them to run to.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
That's correct - anyone working for Tyrant's evil system is evil as well - no one with normal morality can support someone like Tyrant and be a good person.
This is not to say a Resistance movement, had it existed, wouldn't have had a moral justification for taking someone like that out, but sometimes these guys are trying to get by in a bad situation themselves.
Tyrant reminds me of Stalin in many ways. I find his government reprehensible. However, my powerhungy evil twin of my main hero works with the system, since it's just a game. -
Geez, it's just a game people.
I've been having fun making evil versions of my heroes and good versions of my villains and letting that dictate their choices. As good as my heroes are, that's how despicable they are in Praetoria.
You're playing characters here, and making decisions in that mindset. If I were to let my own personal feelings about Praetoria creep in, this game probably wouldn't be all that much fun. -
Quote:TruthOriginally Posted by Marcian Tobay
Daredevil's comic never gets the love it deserves.
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Quote:Try flying in to DC with a one way ticket and no checked baggage.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
I'm actually somewhat comforted by the super-rich in their private jets being subjected to the same sort of idiotic, useless Security Theater I went through on my recent vacation to the continent.
=P
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If they could just come up with a way of lightening the load of batteries you have to carry that would be a big help. Several companies are trying to come up with a way of doing that.
I know of one firm in particular that has a pack you strap to your leg, and it stores the kinetic energy you make just by rucking into a power pack, they developed one for vehicles, too. I'm not sure how well it's testing out though.